Hello Clint,
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 5:36:15 PM, you wrote:
CP>  From what I have read in this thread, it looks like only one guy

CP> prefers the old timed and rdate tools. A few are even telling him he is

CP> giving bad advice when promoting the usage of these tools. Henning

CP> mentioned that rdate and timed are pretty much useless and others have

CP> said that timed is obsolete. So why don't we remove them from the source

CP> tree?
  I've never suggested (or mentioned) the timed.

  Of course I was talking about the "-n" mode of rdate (as a replacement to

ntpdate like Paul de Weerd was suggesting in this thread).

  May  be  it makes sense to set "-ncv" as a default behavior of rdate, but

there is should be a way to synchronize time without running a demon (don't

understand  why  are  people  so  aggressive  about that) if you don't need

up-to-second  synchronization  (in my case modern hardware goes less than a

second off per day, and really old hardware - less than 10 seconds).
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 Boris                            mailto:boris@twopoint.com